This is a comprehensive, all inclusive program, with no additional add-on costs, that will guide you no matter your age or fitness level into a fuller understanding of Yourself and Yoga.

Whether you want to teach or simply dive into a deeper understanding of your own practice this program is for you.

“YOGA STUDIES is the most comprehensive Teacher Training in the valley! Join the Evolution of Yoga training with the offering many training's in one! Hot Yoga and Non-Heated Yoga, Master and learn how to teach hot yoga (our Integrative Method) Create and teach your own authentically inspired non-heated vinyasa flows, hatha, fitness, and meditation classes.”

Two Training's each year

Our Program is accredited, certified and recognized world-wide through our Registered Yoga School designation with Yoga Alliance.

or Call the studio and ask for Studio Director Samantha Macias RYT200 480.664.2299

Hot Yoga University: Where Yoga Teachers Evolve

We’re passionate about teaching yoga at Hot Yoga University and this program is designed to facilitate the growth of teachers inspired to do the same. As a graduate of the Yoga Studies program you will have a greater understanding of: Functional anatomy, how to build creative vinyasa sequences, hatha yoga, yoga philosophy and history, how to lead a meditation and to teach and connect with your students from an authentic place with confidence and skill.

The Yoga Studies 200 hour yoga teacher training program is grouped into four modules that build on each other.

Karin is one of the Valley's most well loved and respected yoga teachers. Her vision to create an urban style yoga studio that was affordable for everyone, where yogis of all backgrounds and levels can practice and heal together, became a reality in 2012.

An athlete from the time she was 8 years old, finishing up on the collegiate level on scholarship in the early 80’s. The experiential knowledge and insight from all those years playing team sports, setting personal goals and achieving them within the scope of a team environment; set her on a natural to path of leadership and instilling a strong sense of self in others.

After college, she married her sweetheart and they started a family. She enjoyed the next ten years as a stay at home mom of two very active kids. Feeling inspired to share her love for sports and teaching, she began to coach girls and boys basketball at her children’s Catholic school, along with leading and teaching the Art Masterpiece Program. Now married for 35 years they have two grandchildren to enjoy.

She eventually ventured out into the corporate world and effortlessly worked her way to the top of the corporate ladder, as a trainer, educator and managing over one hundred employees.

She began her yoga practice in 2000 at the Yoga Institute in Old Town Scottsdale- a Bikram method studio. Her practice became a way for her to manage the stress of her corporate career. Just two years into her practice, she resigned from her corporate job to become a yoga teacher; walking away from everything she thought defined her. Through her yoga practice she had a new understanding, that she defined herself.

Since that time, she has taught over 11000 yoga classes, inspiring over 275,000 students with her radiant authentic style and whole-hearted approach to life. Karin's classes balance the meditative, energetic and spiritual side of yoga and life along with anatomical alignment and strength building.

She is excited to share her knowledge, and continue the lineage of the passionate teachers that have inspired her.

Effie Densberger E-RYT 200, Effie is the lead instructor with Karin and anyone who knows Effie knows her all out passion for yoga and for HYU. She has been teaching yoga since 2014.

When she first started practicing she was really concerned with was the physical improvements. She began to see changes in her body and her energy levels, so naturally she was hooked. The more she practiced the more she realized that she wanted to practice for so many more reasons than just the physical aspects. Yoga has become a gift, a teacher, in her journey through life. For Effie, yoga is all about dropping fear, overcoming physical and mental limitations, self-acceptance, and realizing anything is possible both on and off the mat.

Effie loves the music festival life and her classes are infused with amazing music and grounded with breath-work and passion. Effie is excited to share her love for yoga with this new group of teacher trainees.

Kim Bulloch E-RYT 500 YACEP

Kim is a certified Master Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga Trainer. Kim's teaches intuitively and attracts yoga lovers, anatomy geeks, fitness freaks. Her message is always one of self love, self expression and empowerment which is exactly what she found for herself when she began her studies in this style of yoga and anatomy based on discovering one’s true core power and using the tools of biomechanics, creative sequencing, practical inspiration and fabulous flow classes to access each student’s freedom from the inside out.

She works on demystifying yoga postures and philosophy so that it can be simply accessed and understood–and directly applied to ease the suffering of even life’s most pressing challenges.

Kim has taught yoga and pilates for nearly 12 years and is certified at the 500 hr level in Core Strength Vinyasa with Sadie Nardini. She continues to study yoga anatomy with Leslie Kaminoff and loves to mentor new yoga teachers helping them find their voice, hone their skills, and gain confidence in their teaching.

Assistant Trainers:

Samantha Macias RYT 200 Studio Director

Samantha joined the HYU team in early 2016. She brought with her ten years of customer service experience and a vast knowledge of social media and front and back office skills. She manages staffing, class schedules and created our YTT Manual. January 2018 she graduated from the Yoga Studies 200 Yoga Teacher Training. She is excited to help teacher trainees anyway she can.

I am grateful to have attended many workshops and seminars and to have learned from some of today's most influential spiritual seekers: Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Carolyn Myss, Marianne Williamson and Byron Katie to name a few.

I look forward to sharing my passion, as I guide you and also get to know you, through your Yoga and Yoga Nidra Meditation.

Certifications:

2018 Yoga Studies 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training

Master Yoga Nidra Amrit Method Certified Facilitator

Vipassana Meditation

Matnix Energetic Level I and II Intensives

Theta Energy Course

DNA Healing Course I and II Advanced Training

Personal Training and Life Coaching

"A belief is just a thought you keep thinking" - Abraham Hicks

Amber Brooks-Gumbert PA

Amber is lover of yoga and has found her practice as a great way to eliminate stress and to stay balanced. She absolutely rocked our last teacher training and was voted the favorite study block by all the teacher trainees. She has a wealth of knowledge and teaches in a way that is fun and liberating.

She completed her Bachelor of Science in Health Science at the University of Nevada, Reno in 2001 and her Masters of Medical Science from Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona in 2005. She worked as a staff PA in the Division of Hospital Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Arizona from 2005-2018. She previously served as the Assistant Program Director for the Mayo Clinic Postgraduate PA Fellowship in Hospital Internal Medicine at the time of its inception in 2007 and served as Program Director from 2015-2018. She joined the faculty at Northern Arizona University as Assistant Professor in the PA Program in 2018.

Ms. Brooks-Gumbert has an interest in interprofessional education and simulation lab teaching. She is adjunct faculty at Arizona State University and Midwestern University, Glendale. She has been lecturing at the national level since 2007 on various topics such as hypertension, liver disease, delirium, hematologic and oncologic emergencies, VTE and sepsis. Ms. Brooks-Gumbert has also served as Research Chair for APPAP.